Hood attachment



Nov. 9 19-26. 1,606213 J. A. GOETHE HOOD ATTACHMENT Filed Dec. 15. 1925Patented Nov. 9, 1926.

JOSEPH A. GOETHE, E HOUSTON, TEXAS, AssIenoR 0E ONE-HALF TO G. w.SANSOM,

0E HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS.

HOOD ATTACHMENT.

Application filed December This invention relates to new and usefulimprovements ina hood attachment.

One object of the invention is to produce an attachment for a motorvehicle hood designed to prevent the leakage of water through the hoodonto the wiring and spark plugs of the vehicle motor beneath.

With the above and other objects in View this invention has particularrelation to certain novel features of construction and arrangement ofparts an example of which is given in this specification and illustratedin the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 shows a plan view of amotor vehicle hood showing the attachment applied thereto and partlybroken away.

Figure 2 shows a cross sectional view thereof on the line 22 of Figurel, and

Figure 3 shows an enlarged cross sectional view of the attachment. 7

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, wherein like numeralsof reference designate similar parts in each of the figures the numeral1 designates the hood as a whole. This hood is jointed longitudinallyalong the top, in the usual way, forming the hinge joint 2. This joint,in some 15, 1925. Serial No. 75,545.

makes of motor vehicles, is not watertight and in case of rain the wateris permitted to leak through the joint onto the motor wiring and sparkplugs causing a short circuit of the electric current.

In order to avoid this leakage the attachmentherein described, has beenprovided. This attachment comprises a long guard strip, 3,concavo-convex in cross sectional contour and arranged lengthwise of andabove the joint 2, so as to lie over said joint and with its convex sideupwardly. At one edge this guard strip has a plurality of spaced lugsat, hinged thereto, turned inwardly and riveted or otherwise secured tothe hood 1. These lugs hold the guard strip in place without interferingwith the flexibility of the hood along its joint 2.

What I claim is The combination with a motor vehicle hood having alengthwise joint, of aguard strip hinged at one edge to the hood anddisposed lengthwise .of and over said joint.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name.

JOSEPH A. GOETHE.

